Swedneck comments on Google announced a new requirement: starting September 2026, every Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

unfortunately postmarketOS just barely qualifies as usable, and absolutely cannot be pushed as a serious option yet unless people are okay with turning their smartphone into a feature phone.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago*

I have PMOS on a Xiaomi phone that's supposed to be fairly well supported. It's very laggy, freezes often and won't charge when turned on. I really want to like it but it's just not there.

Lineage with MicroG for now. Next phone will hopefully be whatever Graphene and Motorola are working on.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

That's why it needs support.

Linux desktops also needed lots of support before getting where we are now.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 4 months ago

I don't think people hearing "postmarketos is good" -trying it- and realizing it's hilariously far from usable, counts as support..

by all means support the project, donate money and for the 3 people who are capable of it please do contribute to the codebase! But that's not really what people are encouraging.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago

Imagine if support were given to a more worthy OS like BSD, or Haiku.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent